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LP4

Ratatat

LP4

Fourth album of experimental instrumental electronic indie rock from the Washington DC duo

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6.4

Label
XL
UK Release date
07/06/2010
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  1. 9.0 |   PopMatters

    Ratatat are auteurs of musical fantasies you want to experience over and over
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  2. 8.0 |   Beats Per Minute

    It’s a great album. Each track stands well on its own and yet the album flows smoothly as a single entity
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  3. 8.0 |   Rave Magazine

    All you need to do is listen to the stunning closer Alps – a deft combination of hallmark cheesiness counterposed with Mast’s fussy production – to understand that what this band does is intrinsically worthy
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  4. 8.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    You can put on LP4 around any mixed group of people at a barbeque or house party this summer and people can simply enjoy the sensory pleasure of interesting, lively music without analysing the cultural baggage than comes with it
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  5. 7.0 |   NME

    The hooks have gotten naggier, the production crisper, to the point where ‘LP4’’s wide-eyed squelchy funk is carving them an oxymoronic niche: ‘utterly compelling background music’
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  6. 7.0 |   Spin

    New sounds - ukulele, bouzouki, real strings, even a pet parakeet - get added to their template of booming drum machines and cop-show guitars
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  7. 6.0 |   Uncut

    Print edition only

  8. 6.0 |   FasterLouder

    Rock, dance, salsa, shoegaze or otherwise, there’s still nobody quite like them. It’s a style-mashing feast for the ears, but just not gripping enough to merit repeat listens
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  9. 5.2 |   Pitchfork

    Their sound is wearing increasingly thin and producing diminished results
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  10. 4.0 |   The Irish Times

    The tracks sound tired, overwrought and under-cooked, as if the duo just ran out of ideas and gumption in the studio
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  11. 4.0 |   Tiny Mix Tapes

    Its execution is too rote, too much the result of being so entrenched in the band's Ratatat-ness that the material is suffocated
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